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WASHINGTON, United States - An Iraq war veteran canceled his plan to crowdsource $1 billion to help President Donald Trump build a wall on the Mexico border Friday after raising only $20 million and drawing questions about his online activities. Triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage launched a GoFundMe account in December, quickly piling up donations as Trump was unable to get Congress to fund the wall -- leading to a now three-week-old partial shutdown of the government. But donations slowed and Kolfage said the group had concluded that the government won't be able to make use of them in the foreseeable future. In addition, Kolfage was put on the defensive late Thursday by a BuzzFeed News article that raised questions about his use of funds from a previous GoFundMe campaign, and alleged he ran an operation to fabricate fake news against liberal groups and politicians in order to generate traffic and profits from advertising. Kolfage said on his GoFundMe page that he will refund … [Read more...] about News
US vet cancels project to raise money for border wall

Triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage launched a GoFundMe account in December, quickly piling up donations as Trump was unable to get Congress to fund the wall -- leading to a now three-week-old partial shutdown of the government. But donations slowed and Kolfage said the group had concluded that the government won't be able to make use of them in the foreseeable future. In addition, Kolfage was put on the defensive late Thursday by a BuzzFeed News article that raised questions about his use of funds from a previous GoFundMe campaign, and alleged he ran an operation to fabricate fake news against liberal groups and politicians in order to generate traffic and profits from advertising. Kolfage said on his GoFundMe page that he will refund donations or, if donors agree, will put them toward a new company that will build sections of the wall itself on private property along the frontier. "Our highly experienced team is highly confident that we can complete significant segments of the … [Read more...] about US vet cancels project to raise money for border wall

By Dan Levin The New York Times Fri., Dec. 21, 2018 Crowdfunding donations have paid for medical and legal bills, wildfire losses and college tuition. Now, a GoFundMe campaign aims to finance President Donald Trump’s long-promised border wall. The campaign, called “We The People Will Fund The Wall” and launched this week by a disabled Florida veteran, had raised more than $12.2 million from more than 200,000 people by early Friday afternoon. The goal? $1 billion. But the campaign’s founder, Brian Kolfage — a triple amputee who served in Iraq and who ran right-wing conspiracy websites that were eventually removed by Facebook — is hoping to raise even greater sums to cover construction of a barrier between the United States and Mexico. He suggested on the GoFundMe page that if the 63 million people who voted for Trump were to each donate $80, they would raise more than $5 billion, the amount Trump is seeking for the wall. “As … [Read more...] about GoFundMe campaign to build border wall raises more than $12 million

By Meagan Flynn The Washington Post Thu., Dec. 20, 2018 If neither Mexico nor Congress is going to fund U.S. President Donald Trump’s border wall, then Brian Kolfage has a more expedient plan: GoFundMe. In just four days, the military veteran’s crowdsourced campaign for construction of the border wall has raked in more than $2.5 million (U.S.) in donations from more than 43,000 people as of early Thursday. Kolfage, a triple amputee who won a Purple Heart while serving in Iraq, is aiming to raise $1 billion for wall funding through the GoFundMe. He proposed on the GoFundMe page that if every one of the 63 million people who voted for Trump donated $80, they would get the wall that Trump promised them, echoing an idea included in a New York Post column over the weekend. The 37-year-old Air Force vet of Miramar Beach, Florida, said in an email to The Washington Post that he decided to start the campaign on Sunday because “political games from both … [Read more...] about A triple-amputee military vet raises $2.5 million for Trump’s border wall in four days